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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I - The Akha Way 1988-1990.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tragic event happened in A-ma's tea garden?
(a) All the tea trees died.
(b) The spirits haunted A-ma.
(c) A-ba's father fell and died.
(d) First Sister-in-law was cursed.

2. What type of government did Chairman Mao establish in China?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Anarchy.
(c) Communism.
(d) Proletarianism.

3. What does A-ma believe controls everyone's lives?
(a) Coincidence.
(b) Money.
(c) Fate.
(d) The spirits.

4. What does Li-yan eat that keeps her feeling full?
(a) Tea leaves.
(b) Rice.
(c) Chili flakes.
(d) Chicken.

5. What does dreaming of a dog on the roof mean?
(a) The dog did not keep out an evil spirit and it is roaming in the village.
(b) The dog is scared of an evil spirit and climbed on the roof.
(c) The dog is a sign of a stranger coming to the village.
(d) The dog is waiting for the new moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days are in one Akha cycle of days?

2. What does Li-yan witness that changes her "irreversibly" (35)?

3. What is the order of importance for people in the village?

4. Why does San-pa get into trouble the day he meets Li-yan?

5. Why is Teacher Zhang sometimes bitter?

(see the answer key)

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